With a little more work this, or something like this could be a very useful tool in recording crime scenes.

Just think once a careful walk through had been done and a few key measurements made not only could your recreate the crime scene. You could then easily lay out the geometry of gun fights, mark evidence and leave interactive notes. Even years later after a building might have been destroyed, you could walk through scene again and again combing over evidence that might have once been over looked.

I hope someone is working on this…

Look I made a USB Stick! Big Deal right? Well let me explain. I’ve been thinking about this device for a while and while it might look like a simple USB stick it’s not. It’s really a panic switch.

I think about this panic switch every time I hear about something bad happening to a child or a woman. This panic switch is on my mind a lot because of the 8 year old that was murdered while he was walking home by himself for the first time.  My heart goes out to the family.

The idea here is this is a call for help. Sure you can give your kids a cell phone but I’m not sure they will always be able to use it plus it might be pretty obvious to anyone doing some harm to someone they are making a call for help.  Think of it as that secret button the banker pushes when the bad bank robbers burst in.

This looks like a harmless USB stick. But once the switch is pulled this device would call all the programmed phone numbers, start broadcasting it’s location, sniffing for wifi, and listen in on it’s surroundings.

Features:

• Built in Mic
• GPS
• WiFi Sniffer
• Auto-dialer
• Average looking USB Stick

The Cradle:
The Panic Switch is married to the Cradle via Bluetooth and only that device can reprogram or disable it.  It’s not really a USB stick and can’t be connected to anything other than that cradle.

It’s a panic switch that you don’t even have to think about it’s just one action and you’ve let the world know you are in trouble.  I’ve thought about this device for a long time and the idea of how cool it could look, or what the shape would be.  The more I thought about it it the more I realized it shouldn’t be something that stands out.  It shouldn’t give itself away as a safety device or a panic switch.  If the bad guy knows you have it they might take it away from you.  I wish cell phone companies would offer a device like this to parents at a low price point of about 59 bucks.  Seems like something that could be done.  What do you think?

Take a look at the demo below and if you have 2 bucks to spare please download it.  I designed the UI (user interface) for you none nerds out there.  I’ll write more about that in a later post, I just wanted to make a quick post because I’m proud of the game and the people I work with to create it.  It’s great to work at Incredible Technologies because we’re always looking for new ways to make games and media.

Anyway have fun playing the game and let me know what you think. You can find out more about what we do here and here.

This is where you can learn more or download iQuarters

Let’s do a quick mash-up.

Can you imagine the new types of TV shows? They’ll have 30 camera angles to choose from. All looking at the same thing! Cutting back and fourth. They’ll have to add an extra camera looking at the Police Officer so we can get a good reaction shot?

Lets toss in 3D image tracking software. Now that you have all these points of view trained on the same thing. You can use this tracking technologies to visually analyze the image data and extrapolate the scene in 3D. Imagine how useful that will be in a court of law?

Add BlueTooth and we could have something like “Twitter Vision” but say Pistol Vision. So every-time a gun is drawn around the world we could instantly see who is being fired upon.

I think this is a good thing and I hope it helps to keep everyone honest.

I submitted it to On Super8 and they accepted it for their podcast!  Check it out if you haven’t seen it.  A vintage Sean and Tammy are in it.  It was shot in fall of 1990?  Tammy’s Grandfather played his Lowrey Organ for me for the music.  Believe it or not I shot the film.  The part where the hearts are animated. I had a foot release trigger clicking off the frames.

If you are into Super8 film and yes they do still make Super8 film.  On Super8 is a must bookmark.  It will make you want to break out your camera and start shooting film again.

Mark Ramsey blogs about the future of radio and how it’s going to go through a major transition with the advent of wi-fi radio in cars and competition from podcasters. He tries to give advice and idea to radio broadcasters on how to make that transition to being more Internet savvy and relevant to your listener in the web age.

His insight is interesting and applies to podcasting in general and there’s great advice and ideas about marketing.

The other important aspect of his blog which applies to podcasting is how some of his insights might provide ideas that will enable podcasters to unite with the radio stations as they try make new content to keep up with the vast tastes of their ever changing listener.

Especially the listener five years from now…